incongruous

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(adj.)

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be, look, seem | find sth

ADV

entirely, utterly | doubly

a little, rather, somewhat

The modern glass building looked rather incongruous next to the old stone church.

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1

Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.

[P]erhaps he thought me, with my basket of summer fruit, and my lack of the dignity age confers, an incongruous figure in such a scene.

Ona was blue-eyed and fair, while Jurgis had great black eyes with beetling brows, and thick black hair that curled in waves about his ears—in short, they were one of those incongruous and impossible married couples with which Mother Nature so often wills to confound all prophets.

2

Of two numbers, with respect to a third, such that their difference can not be divided by it without a remainder.

20 and 25 are incongruous with respect to 4.

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[P]erhaps he thought me, with my basket of summer fruit, and my lack of the dignity age confers, an incongruous figure in such a scene.

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Ona was blue-eyed and fair, while Jurgis had great black eyes with beetling brows, and thick black hair that curled in waves about his ears—in short, they were one of those incongruous and impossible

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Ardent suns had likewise tanned his face till it was swarthy as a Spaniard's. The yellow mustache appeared incongruous in the midst of such swarthiness.

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When people use the word "ironic", they may mean "comically incongruous".

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He has an incongruous sounding name which is hard to remember.

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Yanni found that incongruous.

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